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rwboyer

Re:Blogging With Emacs on Monday January 16, 2012 @09:52PM (#3473551)
Having Vi burned into my muscle memory since the 80's I could never use (literally) emacs for more than 30seconds without inevitably random "i"'s, some "/regx", etc embedded in my text - (that and the RMI inducing ctl-meta-esc-alt-x'ing thing ;))

I love Jekyll/Octopress - but my tool chain of choice for post writing is...

IA -> Marked -> jekyll/s3cmd with a tripwire script -> s3 -> cloudfront

Write - save - blam.

RB

Re:FreeBSD now available on all EC2 instance types on Monday January 16, 2012 @09:32PM (#3473518)
I have a couple of boxes at home right now running NetBSD as dom0 w/xen3 and linux/freebsd/netbsd running as PV guests if I get a chance I will move them to some more modern HW and see what happens with NetBSD and multiple cores... Think one of them is a dual core right now but gotta check...

In any case NetBSD PV Kern on a small AWS might be a great combo for cheap BSD thrills....

RB

Re:FreeBSD now available on all EC2 instance types on Monday January 16, 2012 @09:04PM (#3473454)
I am a BSD fan - a big one in fact as I have been using BSD since the late 80's. I use AWS for some things where the pricing/instance sizes are a good match for the app needs.

I don't keep up with the latest greatest Xen infrastructure in use by Amazon but...

Wouldn't it be easier/cheaper to get NetBSD running as it has PV support for Xen3? vs using a windows HVM?

RB

Re:A Lua interpreter in the NetBSD kernel on Sunday January 15, 2012 @08:05PM (#3468883)
Yea - I know - just wishful thinking by a user/very occasional contributor to the bad minorities.
Re:A Lua interpreter in the NetBSD kernel on Sunday January 15, 2012 @06:05PM (#3468548)
I wish the resources were thrown at something a little more USEFUL in NetBSD as there are so few to go around. Maybe like ZFS or BTRFS support...

I LOVE the BSD's especially NetBSD - what else can make some of my old sentimentally attached hardware work so well.

I think I might be the only one running NetBSD as a DOM-0.

Re:Why SQL server was never ported to Unix on Sunday January 15, 2012 @05:13PM (#3468421)
I could have sworn that way way way back when MS-SQLServer just started out it was a "fork" of Sybase Unix code??? I kinda remember that happening in like the 90's and then like usual Microsloth screwed it's partner (Then Sybase that did a lot of the work on the initial windows port)

Of course I maybe having some sort of strange drug induced flashback but kinda remember this?

RB